Just watching Kurt Angle talking about his favorite moments and matches, it's crazy to think that Kurt had his first match in 1999, won the WWE Championship in 2000 and was only a couple years into his career at the time of the infamous 'Ruthless Aggression' promo and match with Cena. Like Cena debuting in 2002 and you would think Kurt had been around for a long time when this segment happened. Yet Kurt himself was essentially still a young wrestler, yet had so many big moments and matches that just puts into perspective how fast Angle picked up pro wrestling to be seen as the veteran working with a newer talent when he himself was still young in his career.
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Wwe vault posted a message telling people they haven't found footage of Angle vs Owen.
We have a pic from the match, so surely video footage does exist. But makes me wonder if that footage is also locked up? Don't know why it would be, but it was the last singles match of his career in front of cameras.Comment
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People seem to say it was WCW matches with CGI affects added in (on the green screen).
Which reminds me of the WCW Nitro video game since some arenas you could choose some weird locations. I remember one arena was basically a mirrored room. The Ring is just surrounded by mirrors.Comment
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I remember around the time WCW shut down (or might have been in 2000 when people quickly tuned out), someone was selling the game at a garage sale (basically giving it away at that point) which is how I ended up with it. I still have it to this day.
WCW Nitro had one of the best rosters for a wrestling game.
Probably wasn't beaten until later years WWE games.
I remember doing cheat codes to unlock every wrestler from that game, there had to be over 100 guys from the game which was impressive for the 90s.
Never watched WCW so I don't think I even knew who most of those guys were, but looking back on it now and realizing how many people were in that game is impressive.Comment
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Watching Insurrextion 2002 (yes, the show which led to the plane ride from hell) and this might be the most random line I've heard on commentary. Don't think King even knew what he was saying.
King: Just because you put on a referee shirt, it doesn't make you a referee, just like standing in a garage doesn't make you a car.
JR: Huh?
King: What?Comment
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Interesting thing I noticed for NXT this week. It's the first? pretaped episode of WWE in the Netflix era (could've sworn another NXT was taped but maybe not?) and the entire episode was available on Netflix as of 8ET. So Netflix didn't treat it like a live episode, they just treated it as an episode drop.
I wouldn't be surprised if Smackdown is the same way this week too where 8pm ET the entire episode just drops on Netflix instead of being aired as if it's a 2 hour show.Comment
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Behind the scenes footage of vignettes from the New Generation Era. These are pretty cool, seeing how some of the iconic vignettes were made even get to see a young Shane McMahon producing in some of these as well. Also... wow Alundra Blayze was smokin' back then, I know back then it was about Sunny, then it was Sable but Alundra was right there with them.
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Finally on the first WWE Raw.
The name change felt so weird. On one hand it happened out nowhere (they literally had WWF events over the weekend), on the other hand, they had WWE stuff ready immediately. Ring aprons, shirts, mic covers, tv commercial, so they definitely had a "break glass in case of emergency" ready to go if things went south which it did in that lawsuit.
Hogan tries running Undertaker down with Takers bike but Hogan can't get the bike to work on live tv, but they're forced to have it working because they're about to air a pretaped segment the second he goes backstage with the bike so he needs the bike with himComment
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Ahead of Evolution, the WWE NXT YouTube channel is uploading episodes of the first Mae Young Classic. It's cool how many names we still see around
Princesa Sugehit vs. Kay Lee Ray
Serena Deeb vs. Vanessa Borne
Shayna Baszler vs. Zeda
Jazzy Gabert vs. Kimber Lee
Mercedes Martinez vs. Xia Li
Marti Belle vs. Rachael Ellering
Rhea Ripley vs. Miranda Salinas
Mia Yim vs. Sarah Logan
Ayesha Raymond vs. Toni Storm
Dakota Kai vs. Kavita Devi
Sage Beckett vs. Bianca Belair
Santana Garrett vs. Piper Niven
Candice LeRae vs. Renee Michelle
Lacey Evans vs. Taynara Conti
Nicole Savoy vs. Raquel Rodriguez
Kairi Sane vs. Tessa BlanchardLast edited by SmashMan; 07-07-2025, 02:12 PM.Comment
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Hmmm.... I know usually these uploads don't mean anything but Saraya/Paige is a free agent and since Punk returned we along with several women in the locker room have been wanting AJ Lee to return.
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So the WWE Vault channel just posted an hour long video on the rise of AJ Lee. Then they posted Rey Mysterio vs Chris Jericho from The Bash in 2009.
So Jericho indeed coming back, Paige & AJ Lee this Sunday at Evolution.Comment
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